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Message:: [QUOTE="Log Potato, post: 1345234, member: 26787"]I figured this might be a fun subject.  There are so many realms of collecting, I want to know what influenced you to make the choices in your collecting habits come about. I personally, started collecting about 2 years ago.  It started with me finding a funky looking dime in my change jar.  I did a little research on it and realized it was silver.  I was always aware of wheat cents, but they really never pulled me in.  Once I found my first silver coin I was hooked.  I realized that there could be silver coins still in change.  I decided to start collecting silver Kennedy coins. They were pretty easy to find in my area just from asking cashiers for 50C pieces.  My best haul was 19 40%'s at one gas station.  That led  me a bit further into coin collecting and older series and the history of the mint and so forth.  I decided to start a type set.  I had a lot of fun finding different types of coins, and I found that circulated coins are what I loved the most.  I liked MS coins, but circ coins had a story.  I didn't know what it was, but the mystery of it was pretty cool.  I acquired a 1907D 50C in PCGS in VF25 in May of last year, and immediately I was hooked on Barber coins.  I have since narrowed it down to Barber 50c and now Seated 50c coins too.  There is a lot of history in those coins and especially circulated. So what is a synopsis of where you evolved from?[/QUOTE]